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Ixone Sadaba

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Artwork

Mass made with 216 articles on torture published on British newspapers

Close ups of the walls and floors in the female cells at Amns Sukara (Red Security Prison, Iraq), printed on Newsprint.

Installation and video on a free reading in kurdish of the meta-theatre text "Offending the audience" by Peter Handke

Installation and video on a free reading in kurdish of the meta-theatre text "Offending the audience" by Peter Handke

Remembering Fraçois Truffaut movie, La nuit americaine is a photographic metaphor on the long night Iraq is sufering.

Ixone

Sadaba

Artist's Statement

The ways in which photography has historically been involved in the technology of power-knowledge have become the main objetive of my recent research. My work is bound to query the identity of the photographic medium through a dual approach: on the one hand, analyzing the role of photography within a regulatory framework, which defines and constructs meaning, and in turn, portraying the political scenario resulting from this framework. Thus, questioning the dimension of our gaze.

Ixone Sadaba (Bilbao, 1977) graduated in 2001 at the Fine Arts Basque Country University and holds and MFA and a Certificate Program at The International Centre of Photography, New york.
Ixone Sadaba´s work has been widely exhibited in private galleries and public institutions such as The Reina Sofia Museum, Spain, The Guggenheim Museum, Spain, MUSAC, Spain, MoCCA Contemporary Art Museum, Toronto, Museum of Contemporary Arts, of New Oreleans….
Among the awards are “Convergencias”. Alliance Française & Fundación Pilar Citoler (2012), Sovereign European Art Prize, Hong Kong (2011), Generación 2011. Caja Madrid, Spain, (2010) and Finalist at "Premio Purificación García", Madrid, Spain (2003)